According to monitoring sites, a huge outage affected major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp on Monday, affecting 10s of millions of users.
Tracker for service disruptions At 1545 GMT, Downdetector began reporting difficulties in densely populated locations including Washington, D.C. and Paris.
More than 20,000 users have reported problems with Facebook and Instagram, according to Downdetector.
According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, an outage has hit Facebook’s global service throughout the globe. A spokeswoman for the authority stated, “Further information is being gathered.
Facebook services (Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp, Oculus) have been affected internationally due to an outage. Further details are being collected: PTA Spokesperson
— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) October 4, 2021
On Facebook, users in the impacted regions were greeted by an error message that read: “Something went wrong. To repair it as quickly as possible, our team is hard at work.
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said on Twitter: “We’re aware that some users are experiencing difficulty accessing our applications and products.”
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Andy Stone (@andymstone) October 4, 2021
As soon as possible, he added, “we’re trying to bring everything back to normal, and we apologise for any inconvenience.”
In March and July of this year, Facebook’s applications suffered similar massive disruptions.
There were also problems with third-party applications like Pokemon Go and Match Masters logging in using Facebook credentials.
App Match Masters informed its followers on Twitter that there was a problem with the Facebook login servers, and that once it was resolved, everything will be back to normal.
After leaking a cache of papers to authorities, a whistleblower appeared on US television to disclose her name, claiming that the social media behemoth knew its products stoked hatred and harmed the mental health of youngsters.
In an interview with the CBS News programme “60 Minutes,” data scientist Frances Haugen, 37, from Iowa, claimed that Facebook was “significantly worse” than anything she had ever seen before.
Haugen has sparked a firestorm around the world’s largest social media platform, and US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal have detailed how Facebook knew its products, including Instagram, were harming young girls, particularly in the area of body image. Facebook has yet to respond to the allegations.
